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Front Row: Elle Macpherson and a Tap Dogs lesson

Elle Macpherson and a Tap Dogs lesson

30/06/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Elle Macpherson and a Tap Dogs lesson

With Mark Lawson, including Elle Mcpherson, a lesson from Tap Dogs and Museum of the Year.

The winner of this year's Art Fund Prize for Museums announced, and Elle Macpherson on Britain's Next Top Model.

Which museum has won the Â£100 000 Art Fund Prize? Chair of the judges Kirsty Young announces the winner. Over the last week Front Row has visited all this year's contenders: the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Blists Hill Victorian Town, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust; the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry and the Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Model and business woman Elle Macpherson discusses the new series of Britain's Next Top Model. 

Renowned tenor Placido Domingo has just returned to the stage of the Royal Opera House, singing a baritone role for the first time at Covent Garden, in a production of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra. Music critic Fiona Maddocks reviews. 

Tap Dogs is a dance show which has been seen by over 11 million people and won a host of awards. The cast have to tap while bouncing a basket ball, in water and even upside down. Dancers Adam Garcia and Douglas Mills give Mark a tap dancing lesson and talk about the stamina they need to perform. 



Producer Georgia Mann.

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